a nut tree. The witch orders the trees to be made into beds; later, when she hears he twins' voices coming from the beds, she orders the beds to be burnt to cinders. Sparks fly out of the beds' pyre and reach a rose bush, which is eaten by a goat. Some time later, the she-goat gives birth to two kids. The animals are killed and the twins regain human form. The Sun, on his daily journey, sees the twins and, impressed by their beauty, tells his mother. The Sun's mother comes to them with clothes and a golden apple. Ireland On the other hand, according to researcher Maxim Fomin, Irish folklorist Seán Ó Súilleabháin identified this as a second ecotype (oikotype) of type ATU 707 in Ireland, which corresponds to the birth of the miraculous twins, their death by burial, and the cycle of transformations from plant to animal to humans again. Baltic Region Lithuania Similarly, Lithuanian scholarship (namely, and Daiva Vaitkevičienė) lists at least 23 variants of this format in Lithuania. In these variants, the youngest sister promises to give birth to twins with the sun on the forehead, the moon on the neck and stars on the temples. A boy and a girl are born, but they are buried by a witch, and on their graves an apple tree and a pear tree sprout. They mostly follow the cycle of transformations (from human babies, to trees, to animals and finally to humans again), but some differ in that after they become lambs, they are killed and their ashes are eaten by a duck that hatches two eggs. Kerbelyte locates most of the Lithuanian variants of this format in the Dzūkija region. Latvia According to the Latvian Folktale Catalogue, tale type 707, "The Three Golden Children", is known in Latvia as Brīnuma bērni ("Wonderful Children"), comprising 4 different redactions. Its third redaction follows The Boys with the Golden Stars: the twins are buried by their stepmother in the garden and go through a cycle of transformations (from babies, to trees, to burnt trees, to lambs, to humans again). Albania Slavicist , in his study on Balkan folklore, published an Albanian language variant he titled Les Trois Soeurs. In this tale, a king forbids lighting any light at night the next evening. However, three poor sisters do not follow the ban and keep working through the night. Then they